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What's that Sound?
The perfect mix of music and history
Expression in Pop-rock Music
First published in 2000
The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones
The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.
Understanding Rock
Each of the essays in this serious study and analysis of rock music is written by one of musicology's best young scholars. The essays cover bands like The Grateful Dead, Yes, K.D. Lang, Jimi Hendrix and The Beach Boys.
Keeping Score
Keeping Score is a diverse collection of essays that argues for and demonstrates the current effort to redefine the methods, goals, and scope of musical scholarship. This volume gives voice to new directions in music studies, including traditional and "new" musicology, music and psychoanalysis, music and film, popular music studies, and gay and lesbian studies. These essays speak to music study from within its own language and enter into important conversations already taking place across disciplinary boundaries throughout the academy.
The Foundations of Rock
This is a comprehensive introduction to the inner workings of rock music. Everett takes readers through all aspects of the music and its lyrics, leading fans and listeners to new insights and new ways to develop their own interpretations of the aural landscapes of their lives.
Sounding Out Pop
Brings together a diverse collection of voices to explore a broad spectrum of popular music
Rock and Rhapsodies
"Rock and Rhapsodies is the first book-length musicological study of British rock band Queen. It primarily addresses the material written, recorded, and released between 1973 and 1991. The text provides readers with a nuanced analytical account of the group's songs and illuminates the varied the stylistic and historical contexts in which Queen's music was created. The key conceptual basis for the analysis is an idiolect, which refers to the distinct musical style of a single artist. Having documented the key features of Queen's idiolect, the book further explores the nature of specific musical characteristic and uses them to respond to a range of wider analytical and discursive issues as per...
Music and History
This book begins with a simple question: Why haven't historians and musicologists been talking to one another? Historians frequently look to all aspects of human activity, including music, in order to better understand the past. Musicologists inquire into the social, cultural, and historical contexts of musical works and musical practices to develop theories about the meanings of compositions and the significance of musical creation. Both disciplines examine how people represent their experiences. This collection of original essays, the first of its kind, argues that the conversation between scholars in the two fields can become richer and more mutually informing. The volume features an eloq...
